New Dances Edition 2019 Welcome to New Dances: Edition 2019 Earlier this fall, four highly regarded choreographers stepped into our studios and began to experiment with ideas and phrases with our very eager and talented students. The dance studio, abuzz with anticipation, transformed into a lab of sorts. Improvisation, creation, editing, expanding, and exploring were at the very heart of the creative process, where the relationship between choreographer and dancer revealed a reciprocal partnership that produced something wholly unique and exciting. Creating new dances is a tricky business for sure; there is no guarantee that all of the elements will come together with a perfect synergy, but the task is to take the risk and have faith that with experienced ingenuity, the magic of theater and movement will bubble to the surface. With this edition’s choreographers, Stephen Petronio, Andrea Miller, Jamar Roberts, and Amy Hall Garner, the New Dances formula is already tried and true. Add the excellence of Juilliard Dance, the students of the Juilliard music division, and our production team, and you have an undeniably astounding compounding of talents. The New Dances series offers an exciting glimpse of the progression of technical and artistic growth from the first- to the fourth-years of Juilliard Dance. I couldn’t be more proud of our students—the generative, creative spirit that is so crucial to the vibrancy of our world is wonderfully alive in these hallowed halls. Thank you for attending and supporting our dancers as they dedicate their days to forwarding our art form. Enjoy the performance. Sincerely, Alicia Graf Mack by Marcus Jarrell Willis from New Dances: Edition 2018 (cover), a rehearsal for New Dances: Edition 2018, photo by Rosalie O’Connor. Director, Juilliard Dance Quilt The Juilliard School presents New Dances: Edition 2019 December 11-15, 2019 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 7:30pm Saturday at 2 and 7:30pm Sunday at 3 pm Peter Jay Sharp Theater Sight & Sound World premiere Amy Hall Garner/Carl Craig and Joel Wenhardt Pause This Great Wilderness World premiere Jamar Roberts/Oded Tzur Intermission Desde World premiere Andrea Miller/Nico Jaar Pause #PrayerForNow World premiere Stephen Petronio/Valgeir Sigurðsson Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Fritz Masten Rehearsal Supervisors: Paul Singh and Risa Steinberg Performance time: approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, including an intermission Dance commissions at Juilliard are made possible through the New Work/Guest Artist program, generously endowed by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Andrea Miller’s commission is supported, in part, by Meryl Rosofsky and Stuart H. Coleman. Juilliard’s creative enterprise programming, including enhancements to this evening’s performance, is generously supported by Jody and John Arnhold. Juilliard gratefully acknowledges additional support provided by the Muriel Gluck Production Fund. Sight & Sound World premiere Choreography: Amy Hall Garner Music: “Domina” (featuring Francesco Trintano, Les Siècles, and François-Xavier Roth), by Carl Craig from the album Versus Original Composition by Joel Wenhardt "World of Deep" (featuring Virus J) mixed by Carl Craig and composed by Kevin Saunderson from the album Detroit Musician: Joel Wenhardt, Piano Lighting and Scenic Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Fritz Masten Stage Manager: Melissa Arnaud* Rehearsal Assistants: Natrea Blake and Richard Glover Dancers From the Class of 2023 Abby Castora Zachary Jeppsen Ian Debono Raven Joseph Briana Del Mundo Larissa Leung Jade Diouf Rachel Lockhart MJ Edwards Griffin Massey Jingyi Feng Jamaii Melvin Flora Ferguson Lindsay Phillips Amari Frazier Leighton Shiveley Waverly Fredericks Shoshana Sklar Connor Freeman Matthew Spangler Alex Haskins Haley Winegarden Michaella Ho Makani Yerg *Juilliard Professional Apprentice Program "Domina" and "World of Deep" courtesy of Carl Craig Pause Please turn off all electronic devices. Taking photographs and using recording equipment are not permitted. Large Print and Braille programs are available for select Juilliard performances. Please ask an usher or the house manager for assistance. 2 This Great Wilderness World premiere Choreography: Jamar Roberts Music: The Song of the Silent Dragon by Oded Tzur Musicians From Juilliard Jazz: Birsa Chatterjee, Tenor Saxophone; Cole Davis, Bass; Petros Anagnostakos, Percussion; Joel Wenhardt, Piano Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Fritz Masten Stage Manager: Victoria Gelling* Rehearsal Assistant: Marion-Skye Brooke Logan General Manager: Jennifer McGrath Dancers From the Class of 2022 Scott Autry Cali Hollister Erin Brothers Harrison Knostman Jameson Burke Lounes Landri Aaron Choate Nicole Leung Morgan Clune Eleni Loving Holden Cole Robert Mason Joan Dwiartanto Terrance Matthews Graham Feeny Hugo Pizano Jada German Jacalyn Tatro Orlando Harbutt Cyrie Topete Ellexis Hatch Kylie Toy *Juilliard Professional Apprentice Program Intermission 3 Desde World premiere Choreography and method by Andrea Miller Movement Creation, in collaboration with the dancers Music: "John the Revelator" and "Killing Time" by Nico Jaar Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Fritz Masten Stage Manager: Sarah Herdrich* Creative Assistant: Allysen Hooks Rehearsal Assistant: Haley Sung Dancers From the Class of 2021 Todd Baker Allison McGuire Lidia Caricasole Madison Medina Conner Chew Mackenzie Meldrum Kade Cummings Jack Murphy Michael Garcia Omani Ormskirk Johnny Hackett Danielle Perez Ricardo Hartley III Madison Pineda Lanie Jackson Ian Sanford Payton Johnson Zane Unger Kaylin Maggard Kaine Ward Bronte Mayo *Juilliard Professional Apprentice Program Pause 4 #PrayerForNow World premiere Choreography: Stephen Petronio Music: DISSONANCE by Valgeir Sigurðsson (a new arrangement by Petter Ekman for viola da gamba, electronics, and string orchestra) Music performed by: Liam Byrne, viola da gamba, with Violin 1 Violin 2 Cello Chener Yuan Brenden Zak Joshua McClendon Yanguang Bruce Zhang Xingyu Li Shangwen (Jeff) Liao Joshua Kim Juchao Zhao Double Bass Viola Patrick Curtis Keoni Bolding Lindsay Donat Jay Julio Lighting and Scenic Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Fritz Masten Rehearsal Conductor: Jesse Brault Stage Manager: Kat Meister* Assistant to the Choreographer: Nicholas Sciscione Dancers From the Class of 2020 Kalyn Berg Matilda Mackey Jared Brown** Taylor Massa Treyden Chiaravalloti Lúa Mayenco Cardenal Dylan Croy Nicolas Noguera Elizabeth Faber Nina Peng Barry Gans Sarah Pippin Mikey Garcia Alexander Sargent John Hewitt Kayla Schutz Nathan Hirschaut Noah Wang Naya Lovell *Juilliard Professional Apprentice Program **Jared Brown is a 2019 Princess Grace awardee Valgeir Sigurðsson's DISSONANCE is used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Faber Music Ltd., London, publisher and copyright owner. The walls onstage are filled with good wishes and words of wisdom for the graduating class of 2020 that have been collected this week in the Juilliard main lobby and during performance evenings in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater lobby. Please stop by the lobby display to add to the growing list of messages for the class of 2020. About Juilliard Dance Under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack, Juilliard Dance develops artists of the 21st century—trained in ballet, modern, and contemporary dance forms. Established in 1951 by William Schuman during his tenure as president of Juilliard, with the guidance of founding division director Martha Hill, Juilliard Dance became the first major teaching institution to combine equal instruction in both contemporary and ballet techniques. In the four-year dance program—leading to a bachelor of fine arts degree— students learn the great traditions of both past and present. Juilliard dancers enjoy unparalleled opportunities to work with today’s leading choreographers and perform both new and existing repertory. In addition to high caliber technical training and performances, dancers learn about the craft of choreography and immerse themselves in other facets of the field. Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard prepares dancers for all the possibilities that lie ahead. Juilliard dance alumni include, among many others, the choreographers and directors Robert Battle, Pina Bausch, Amy Hall Garner, Jessica Lang, Lar Lubovitch, Andrea Miller, Ohad Naharin, and Paul Taylor. Juilliard dancers are dancing in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Nederlands Dans Theater, Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Ballet BC, Aspen/Santaˇ Fe Ballet, BJM, L.A. Dance Project, Limón Dance Company, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Ballett des Saarländisches Staatstheater, Kidd Pivot, and Batsheva Dance Company, among many others, as well as in several Broadway productions. The Juilliard Dance Division, proud recipient of the 2015 Capezio Award, was the first educational institution to receive the honor. 6 About the Artists Alicia Graf Mack Alicia Graf Mack enjoyed a distinguished career as a leading dancer of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has also been a principal dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Graf Mack has danced as a guest performer with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Beyoncé, John Legend, Andre 3000, and Alicia Keys. Graf Mack graduated magna cum laude with honors in history from Columbia University and holds an MA in nonprofit management from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2007, Smithsonian magazine named